European Elections Conference believes that the SSP must continue to develop strong links with socialists across Europe, including in England and Wales, through the European Anti Capitalist Left (EACL). We welcome coverage of the EACL in the SSP All Members Bulletin and the encouragement for branches to discuss these developments. The SSP should advocate within…
2003 Motion to National Conference – Fell
Socialist Unity Conference believes that: 1) The SSP should publicly declare, as one of its aims, that it will aid socialist unity in England, Wales and Ireland and to have a real debate within the SSP on how to do it. 2) The SSP, whether in the form of branches, platforms or individuals, makes every…
Whatever Happened To ‘The Independence Election’?
The ‘National Conversation’ prepares the way for further reform of the UK What do the results of the recent elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, and the Irish Dail, mean for the future of the UK? What is the political significance of Salmond’s ‘National Conversation’? This is a contribution by…
Bulletin of the Republican Communist Network (Scotland) in the SSP
Edinburgh James Connolly March, June 4th, 2005 Make Partition History March Special The Scottish Executive’s Sectarian Smokescreen It is 12 years since the old Lothian Region Labour group banned Edinburgh’s James Connolly March. Following the 1993 show of defiance in Broughton Street we won the right to march. However, our annual commemoration is now receiving…
Emancipation & Liberation Index 15
Emancipation & Liberation, Issue 15, Autumn 2007 Setback or disaster: Can the SSP survive?, Mary McGregor The SNP’s ‘National Conversation’ prepares the ground for reform of the Union, Allan Armstrong Consensus politics or an unprincipled lash-up?, Bob Davies Past mustn’t stand in way of future Irish election: Downturn in workers struggle means Teflon Bertie rides…
Lyrical Delicacy and Political Toughness
Allan Armstrong interviews socialist activist and poet, Jim Aitken, about his life, politics and works. Could you please give us some background information about your life? I was born and raised in Edinburgh. My mother was from Wick, one of a family of six. She left Wick to work in service in London. She never…
What Socialists Stand For
Scottish Socialist Youth Review by Andrew Weir Available from: scottishsocialistyouth@hotmail.co.uk for The Scottish Socialist Youth (SSY) have put together the pamphlet What Socialists Stand For, adapted from a similar pamphlet published by the Democratic Socialist Perspective in Australia, to serve as an introduction to socialist politics. The idea is a very good one; a pamphlet-length…
To Tame the City
Grzegorz (Greg) Rybak is Polish worker currently living in Edinburgh. He stood as the SSP candidate for the Leith Ward in the City of Edinburgh Council elections this year. To tame the city Sitting on a bicycle With the speed of the wind I wend my way through the city Trying to tame the new…
Internationalist Spirit
Allan Armstrong reviews two albums, which address the world of migrant workers – dispossession and discrimination, longing and hope, oppression and resistance. The Road of Tears Battlefield Band, £9.50 Battlefield Band released their 26th album, The Road of Tears, last year. The theme is emigration and immigration. The album makes the link between the experience…
It’s a Free World
Channel 4 showed Ken Loach’s latest film, It’s A Free World on September 24th 2007. We are reprinting this review by Corinna Lotz from ‘A World to Win’ website. It’s a Free World follows the director’s earlier feature about the Irish war of independence, The Wind that Shakes the Barley. Producer Rebecca O’Brian and writer…